The eleventh convocation of Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belgaum, will be held on the VTU campus on April 8, vice chancellor Dr H Maheshappa announced here on Monday.

Addressing a press conference, he said as many as 115 gold medals would be presented to rank holders and gold medal winners, besides conferring them degrees in person.

Maheshappa said students of BMSCE Bangalore topped the list of rank holders and medal winners, bagging 36 gold medals, followed by DSCE, Bangalore (28), BIET, Davangere (20), RCVE, Bangalore (17) and PG Centre VTU Belgaum (16).

First-rank holders

Mehnaz Rasool of KBN Gulbarga (Aeronautical Engineering), Rohit Chopra of GND Bidar (Automobile Engineering), Archana Chawhan of BIET Davangere (Bio-Medical Engineering), Usha B Biradar of DSCE Bangalore (Biotechnology), Bindu Chawla of DSCE Bangalore (Chemical Engineering), Megha B R of BMSCE Bangalore (Computer Science and Engineering), Deepasri K R of AIT Chikmagalur (Civil Engineering), Pragati Kulkarni of CMRIT Bangalore (Electronics and Communication Engineering), Gargy Ganguly of SMVIT Bangalore (Electrical and Electronics Engineering), Kavita S of VVCE Mysore (Environmental Engineering), Deepika K C of BIT Bangalore (Industrial Engineering and Management), Priti Srinivas GIT Belgaum (Industrial and Production Engineering), Sushma J of Sapthagiri Bangalore (Information Science and Engineering), Anusha H of RMS Institute Bangalore (Instrumentation Technology), Puneeth BM of KSIT Bangalore (Mechanical Engineering), Abhinanadan H of BMSCE Bangalore (Medical Electronics), Raja S of GVIT KGF (Mining Engineering), Ramya K of BNM Institute Bangalore (Telecommunication Engineering), Harishkumar N of BIET Davangere (Textile Technology), Ruplim Choudhury of MSRIT Bangalore (Architecture), Swathi N of BNM Institute Bangalore (MBA), Sambrekar Trupti Somnath of PG Centre, VTU Belgaum (MBA-Credit System) and Deepika G of RVCE Bangalore (MCA).